This week, I totally want to do a kitchen challenge with you. Are you ready?

Hey, clutter bugs. Welcome back to the clutter bug podcast. I thought we'd do something a little bit different this week

and we would do a kitchen challenge together. The holidays are

rapidly coming and it's terrifying and we talked last week about the fab five the five

areas of our home, though, we can really focus on that are going to give us the biggest bang for our buck

that are going to allow us to work smarter, not harder to give us that clean and tidy home without us having to clean and tidy all the time

because we're busy this time of year and we want to also enjoy friends and family and all the things that come with

an amazing Christmas. I don't want to spend a ton of time cleaning my house, but

I also don't want to be dealing with a messy house this time of year. It just adds to my stress

and we have a lot of company that stops by and I don't want to be mortified. So we are going to tackle it

and I thought this week we could talk about a kitchen challenge us together right now. Hopefully as you're listening

this, we can get into kitchen and make huge progress today. Really take that next step to giving us a

kitchen that's very functional, not only beautiful but functional and practical and streamlined. So it saves us time

and effort and energy every single day when we're using it. Okay, when we talk about a kitchen and we talk

about a kitchen challenge, we have to talk about kitchen counters because kitchen counters are one of

those things that well clutter attracts clutter. So if we have things out on our counters, our brain is

just going to subconsciously, not just us, but our whole family just put things down. We're going to

put things down because it already feels messy. Even if it isn't messy, if we have a ton of stuff out,

it's like it's called clutter blindness. When we have a ton of stuff, we're sort of blind to

what's exactly there. We just see excess. We just see stuff. So the best and most impactful thing we

can do in our kitchen is really take a look, survey your kitchen counters and ask yourself, do I use

these things every day? It has to be used every single day to be out on the counter. So maybe you use

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